New (blade) server - stick with FreeBSD 6.x or wait for FreeBSD 7?

[Per olof Ljungmark]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:46:00AM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm about to set up a new server that should run basically
>> network-monitoring (MRTG, Cacti etc.). Hardware will be HP C-class
>> blade based on AMD Opterons.
>>
>> Should I stick with FreeBS 6.x or wait for FreeBSD 7 (see
>> http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html - "June 2007 Start FreeBSD
>> 7.0 Release Process).
> 
> Note "start".  The release is still many months away, so presumably
> you do not wish to wait until then to install your server :) You
> should definitely keep an eye on it though, there is a lot of good
> stuff coming up in 7.0.
> 
>> The question basically is: Will FreeBSD7 be "current" or "stable"?

We are running several non-critical (including this T42 laptop) and one 
critical (SMTP) machine with -CURRENT and so far it's been a matter of 
getting the source from a good moment in time, mostly the snapshots. So 
far very few problems. You need a testbed to try stuff out on though.

Per olof